I love lists, and nostalgia, and snap remembrances of matters long forgotten. But I think this decade has been too much, and too little, for any of it. We all just adjusted to this decade arriving, and it’s already almost gone. I don’t know about you, but I’m hoping the 2010s are boring and inconsequential. I’d love a decade when the main debates were “Nirvana, or Pearl Jam?” or “Was Dan Quayle right about ‘Murphy Brown?’” I’m not sure we handle Importance well anymore. There’s too much Importance for anything to feel important anymore. Let’s get this damn decade over already.
Mind you, it’s possible that the Y2K virus destroyed all of humanity, and you all exist as simply my last spasm flicker of brain activity until the lights go out. That would explain a lot.